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When traditional craft teaching feels too slow for modern expectations

My pottery teacher keeps saying I need to slow down and feel the clay but I have been making the same wobbly bowls for two years and everyone else is moving ahead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between patient mastery and impatient achievement creates a crisis of faith in the traditional apprenticeship model.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Craft traditions across cultures — the shokunin?”

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